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Louis RANsoM, "or LANSINGBURQ NE W YORK.

Letters .Patent No. 6,905,iclated August 20, 1867. I

IMPROVED TRAVELLING-TRUNK.

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Be it known that I, LOUIS RANSOM, of Lansingburg, in the county lofRensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new .and usefulImprovement in Travelling-Trunks; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and-exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the 'accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon. y

Travelling-trunks, as ordinarily constructed, are liable to be soonknocked to pieces bythe ordinary handling of travel, because theirgeneral form being cubical', their sides and angles are exposed; tonumerous severe blows which reachA the unavoidably weak joints; andalthough strengthened by iron stays, they soon give way. To correct thisweakness in trunks, I propose ma ring them in the -form of cylinders,the staves of which they are made being bound together by two or morestrong, thick hoops, banded with iron, which will serve the purpose ofwheels, and enable a child to roll a heavy trunk over any ordinarilylevel plane. Being made in a cylindrical form, the trunk is much morecapable of resisting blows and hard usage than aisquare one; while,being rolled from one point toanothe'r, it will be less exposed to them.-In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a perspective view of mycylindrical trunk, with a side lid thrown open, and i Y v Figure 2 showsanother modification of my invention, the trunk having no sidelid oropening, but having one. end oi-.head removable.

A isthe cylindrical body of the trunk; B,'iig. 1, is the side lid,thrown open; C, g. 2, is'the removable head; and d d are theraised-hoops'or bands, which hold the trunk together, and serve aswheels on which it rolls. A trunk constructed to open at theend, asshown in iig. 2, will manifestly be the strn'ger, as the hoops will becontinuous around its circumference. The opening head may be madeentirely removable, with a lock and-key-hole in the centre, with anumber of bolts to shoot ont radially in different directions into thebody of the trunk; or said head may be hinged to the body of the trunkon one side, and may be provided with any suitable lock. The hoops oldshould be suihciently raised above the surface of the cylindrical bodyof the trunk to protect the latter from comingin contact withthe groundor pavement, though the surface over which the Vtrunk is rolled shouldbc somewhat rough or uneven.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A travelling-trunk, which, when closed, as in tig. 1 of the drawings,shall have the form of a cylinder.

2. In combination with a 'cylindrical travelling-trunk, I claim two ormore raised hoops or bands around the circumference thereof, to serve aswheels upon which the trunk may be rolled, while they protect the bodyof it from contact with the ground.

LOUIS RANSOM.

Witn esses W. BRADsuAw, EUGENE HYATT.

